- Jody (Troi) Avirgan is leaving his post at ESPN. Also, ESPN is looking for a replacement Jody.
- Megaphone has hired a new head of sales: David Cohn, formerly Senior Director of National Sales at WarnerMedia.
- Kaitlin Prest’s The Heart returns to Radiotopia, now as a partnership with Prest’s venture Mermaid Palace.
- The story of Curtis Flowers, the focus of In The Dark’s second season, continues. Here’s the Jackson Clarion-Ledger story on the latest development.
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